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And so for a night in the sagging middle of this Clinton-Gore-Lieberman convention, the liberal lions were let out of their New Democrat cage. It was an indulgence the Republicans hadn't dared risk, but it was one these Democrats couldn't well avoid. Not with star-power...
The lions seemed a tad catty on a night when the journalists' row stood visibly empty and the networks stood down - those watching Bradley, and then keynoter Rep. Harold Ford Jr., had to flip to stay ahead of the Teddy and Caroline tour of the convention-hall news desks. For...
Clinton is still a genius at conjuring up giant watermelons, luscious and mythic and savory. He gave a terrific speech at the convention. He evoked the Clinton years as one enormous watermelon patch - and in truth, the eating has been pretty good. Clinton proved, effortlessly, that he is still the...
To listen to the Democrats - Dickensian in their tenderness for the little folk, for the janitors and maids and, presumably, for the Chicano pool boys in attendance at the homes of Barbra Streisand and Warren Beatty - who would know of their own party's rich corruptions and fat-catteries? One...
It was ironically fitting that Joseph Lieberman should make his convention acceptance speech after the penultimate episode of "Survivor" - exactly the sort of amoral pop-culture threat to public values that Lieberman has made a career in the Senate of attacking, and a show that, no doubt, whupped him in...